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Title
Out of war
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- (Author)
Subject
Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991-2002 (LCSH)
War--Psychological aspects (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Geographic Coverage
Sierra Leone
Classification
LCC: DT516.826 .F47 2018
DDC: 966.4/05 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"Out of War draws on author Mariane C. Ferme's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil war, the legacy of which is experienced in both physical and psychological ways. Ferme examines the relationship among violence, temporality, trauma, and forms of knowledge. She also puts an emphasis on "war times"--on the different qualities of temporality. She considers the persistence of pre-colonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time as collective anxieties (or "chronotopes"). Above and beyond the expected traumas of war, Ferme explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of techniques of farming and hunting knowledge, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas and of forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, this ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation"--Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Introduction : war times and forms of life
Belatedness : vision, writing, and the labor of time
Chronotope 1 : prefiguring shifting alliances-the sobel
War time rumors : Red Cross as rebel cross and other figures of the collective imagination
Chronotope 2 : numbers, examples, and exceptions
Hunters, warriors, and their technologies
Sitting on land : the political and symbolic economy of chieftancy in contemporary Sierra Leone
Refugees and diasporic publics : the territorial state reconfigured
Child soldiers and contested imaginary of community in post-conflict Sierra Leone
Forced marriage and sexual enslavement : debating consent, custom, and law at the special court for Sierra Leone
Inscriptions on the wall : Chinese material traces in Sierra Leone
Conclusion : surviving and moving on-ephemeral returns.
Authorized Access Point
Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- Out of war
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Change Date: 2019-04-23T15:29:59
Creation Date: 2017-08-29
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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